Re: [xml] Reducing size of static library ( configure options )

[Rush Manbert <rush manbert com>]

On Sep 22, 2008, at 2:08 PM, Prashanth Ramachandran wrote:

> I am in the process of building libxml2 binaries . The functionality  
> that I need are
>
> - Push Interface
> - reader Interface
>  -writer INterface
> - output
> - Canonicalization
>
> providing these options , I still get a size of 1.7 mb for the  
> static lib.
>
> Here are my confiuguration options
>
>
> ./configure --prefix=${SRCROOT}/../build/debug --enable-static -- 
> disable-shared  --with-minimum --disable-ipv6 --without-catalog -- 
> without-debug --without-docbook --without-fexceptions --without-ftp  
> --without-history --without-html --without-html-dir --without-html- 
> subdir --without-http --without-iconv --without-iso8859x --without- 
> legacy --without-mem-debug --without-pattern --without-push -- 
> without-python --without-readline --without-regexps --without-run- 
> debug --without-sax1 --without-schemas --without-schematron -- 
> without-threads --without-thread-alloc --without-valid --without- 
> xinclude --without-xpath --without-xptr --without-modles --without- 
> zlib --without-coverage --with-xpath --with-push
>
>
> I would want to significantly reduce this size from 1.7mb alteast to  
> a number (<1mb).
>
> are there any additional  options that I might not have set to  
> achieve this ?

I can't help you with config options, but I would ask whether you have  
stripped the library after you build it. That generally makes a big  
size difference on the Mac, even with the release library.

- Rush